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  • This is a United States one-dollar bill.

  • It's just over a tenth of a millimetre thick.

  • So, what if you had a million of them?

  • One million US dollars stacked up into the sky?

  • How tall would that stack be?

  • Well, I mean, first of all, it would fall over.

  • So let's say instead that you put that stack on its side.

  • One after the other after the other, lined up.

  • Not edge to edge, but just stacked up.

  • How long would that stack be?

  • Well, it'd be about the length of a US football field or a UK football pitch.

  • So, that's the distance that I'm gonna walk, right now.

  • And as we go, have a think about just how much money that is.

  • We passed $10,000 within my first couple of steps back there,

  • and that's more money than the average annual wage in a lot of the world.

  • Now, there's a money clock on-screen, tied to the GPS in this camera,

  • so the numbers should be about right as we go.

  • A lot of folks have created visualisations

  • of the difference between a million and a billion.

  • Humphrey Yang on TikTok did a great one with grains of rice,

  • and Wren at Corridor Digital did this spectacular visual effects demonstration.

  • but where I think those visualisations fall down is that they rely on volume.

  • They rely on three-dimensional stuff, and that's just not something

  • that the human brain is particularly good at.

  • It's just not intuitive that if you multiply the height, width, and depth of a cube by ten,

  • then the volume increases by a thousand.

  • Yes, mathematically obvious if you know the formula,

  • but intuitively, it's just not that easy to actually understand.

  • If you really want to understand the difference between a million and a billion,

  • then you need something one-dimensional.

  • You need distance.

  • So, I am gonna drive the length of one billion dollars.

  • It doesn't feel like it should take that long, right?

  • After all, I walked to a million dollars in a minute or so.

  • How long could it take to get to a billion

  • when you've got a car and some fast roads?

  • Okay. Dashcam in.

  • Seatbelt on.

  • Let's drive to a billion dollars.

  • Oops.

  • Head east towards Cook Road.

  • Head west towards Cook Road.

  • Turn left onto Cook Road.

  • In a quarter of a mile, turn right onto Ripple Road.

  • Turn right onto Ripple Road, A1306

  • and use the left lane to take the A13 slip road.

  • Use the left lane to take the A13 slip road.

  • Continue on A13 for six miles.

  • In a quarter of a mile, use the second from the left lane

  • to take the M25 slip road to M11, M1.

  • Use the second from the left lane to take the M25 slip road,

  • then use the right lane to keep right.

  • Use the right lane to keep right.

  • In 400 feet, at Mar Dyke Interchange, take the third exit.

  • Exit the roundabout.

  • In half a mile, continue onto A282.

  • Continue onto A282 for five miles.

  • In a quarter of a mile, use the second from the left lane

  • to take the A2 slip road to M2, Canterbury.

  • Use the second from the left lane to take the A2 slip road.

  • Continue onto A2 for half a mile.

  • In a quarter of a mile, keep right at the fork.

  • Keep right at the fork.

  • Continue on A2 for 34 miles.

  • In a quarter of a mile, continue onto Thanet Way.

  • Continue on Thanet Way for 16 miles.

  • In half a mile, at St Nicholas Roundabout,

  • take the second exit onto Canterbury Road/A28.

  • Exit the roundabout onto Canterbury Road.

  • Continue on Canterbury Road for two miles.

  • In 1000 feet, at the roundabout, take the second exit

  • and stay on Canterbury Road, A28.

  • In a quarter of a mile, turn left onto Domneva Road.

  • Turn left onto Domneva Road.

  • In 1000 feet, turn right onto Westgate Bay Avenue.

  • Turn right.

  • Continue straight.

  • In 1000 feet, turn left onto Old Boundary Road.

  • Turn left onto Old Boundary Road, then your destination will be on the left.

  • Your destination is on the left.

  • Ten thousand dollars,

  • the sort of money that's more than the average annual wage

  • in a lot of the world.

  • That was a couple of steps.

  • A million dollars,

  • life-changing sums of money for almost everyone, except a lucky few.

  • Well, that took a minute to walk.

  • But a billion?

  • Well, that takes more than an hour to drive.

  • And what if you wanted to go to a trillion?

  • If you wanted to go to a trillion dollars,

  • well then, the distance of that would take a 787 -- at cruising speed -- five days.

  • The words may sound very similar...

  • but that's the difference between a million, a billion, and a trillion.

This is a United States one-dollar bill.

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A Million Dollars vs A Billion Dollars, Visualized: A Road Trip

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